bleaching earth

1. 1.

   an adsorbent clay that will remove coloring from oils

   Synonymsbleaching clay

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Questions about bleaching earth

What does bleaching earth mean?

bleaching earth means "an adsorbent clay that will remove coloring from oils".

What is another word for bleaching earth?

Close synonyms include bleaching clay. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bleaching earth a common word?

bleaching earth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.